Remember two years ago when Nokia open-sourced the Symbian mobile operating system? The thinking was that cell phone manufacturers who depended on the Symbian OS could help keep it going. But it was already too late. The iPhone's iOS and Android started to take over. Even die-hard Symbian supporters abandoned ship. As the fanboy blogger Symbian Guru explained last summer when he decided to give up on Symbian: I also can?t continue to support a mobile operating system platform that continually buries itself into oblivion by focusing on ?openness? while keeping a blind eye towards the obvious improvements that other open platforms have had for several iterations.Now Symbian is delivering itself another blow?this time self-inflicted. The Symbian Foundation, which hosts all the open-source code, big fixes, and documentation for the OS, is shutting down its websites on December 17. The Symbian OS will still technically be open-source, it will just be impractical for many developers to look at it or improve it.
Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/4ljRR0LXASI/
FEI COMPANY FAIRCHILD SEMICONDUCTOR INTERNATIONAL FAIR ISAAC FACTSET RESEARCH SYSTEMS F5 NETWORKS
No comments:
Post a Comment